Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 81
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16081-6

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Large-scale liquid scintillation detectors for solar neutrinos

Princeton University Princeton, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA

^* e-mail: benziger@princeton.edu

Received: 22 June 2015
Accepted: 3 July 2015
Published online: 8 April 2016

Abstract

Large-scale liquid scintillation detectors are capable of providing spectral yields of the low energy solar neutrinos. These detectors require > 100 tons of liquid scintillator with high optical and radiopurity. In this paper requirements for low-energy neutrino detection by liquid scintillation are specified and the procedures to achieve low backgrounds in large-scale liquid scintillation detectors for solar neutrinos are reviewed. The designs, operations and achievements of Borexino, KamLAND and SNO+ in measuring the low-energy solar neutrino fluxes are reviewed.